Sen. Cotton Proclaims U.S. Could Defeat Iran In ‘Several Days’

After making national headlines for spearheading an effort critical of a nuclear deal between the Obama administration and Iranian leaders, Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton continued his opposition to the Obama administration’s foreign policy pursuits in a recent radio interview.

He stated that the last Democrat president was able to see the need to engage in a brief bombing campaign in Iraq, contrasting Bill Clinton’s 1998 action to Obama’s current position.

“All we’re asking is that the president simply be as tough in the protection of America’s national security interest as Bill Clinton was,” he said, explaining military action against Iran could closely resemble the four-day Operation Desert Fox.

“Even if military action were required – and we certainly should have kept the credible threat of military force on the table throughout, which always improves diplomacy – the president is trying to make you think it would be 150,000 heavy mechanized troops on the ground in the Middle East again as we saw in Iraq,” he explained. “That’s simply not the case.”

Instead, he asserted such a campaign would “be something more along the lines of what President Clinton did in December 1998 during Operation Desert Fox.”

Not only would the time frame be similar, Cotton insisted, but the reason behind the strike would mirror the previous operation.

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“Several days of air and naval bombing against Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction facilities for exactly the same kind of behavior,” he said of the 1998 bombing campaign “—for interfering with weapons inspectors and for disobeying Security Council resolutions.”

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